Monday, April 19, 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Why Is Philanthropy So Unsophisticated?

Peter Diamandis wonders what fields have the potential to innovate with prizes like his creation, the X PRIZE.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Jeffrey Sachs on Impact of Mobile Telephony on Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University, is one of the world's foremost experts on poverty reduction. He explains how mobile phones are decreasing economic isolation in Africa, and why we could be halfway to achieving an important goal in 2020: the end of extreme poverty.



Wednesday, March 24, 2010

On Doing Well By Doing Good

Bill Clinton speaks to The Economist on the financial collapse of 2009 and why it should spur innovative global philanthropy and environmental action


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Coming of Porous Enterprise

[Source: YouTube]


What is the future of the corporation? Pascale Diaine of Orange Labs asked a mix of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and thinkers: John Hagel of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, David Weekly of PBWorks, Brian Phillips of Thread.com, Jerry Michalski of sociate.com and Dan Olsen of yourversion.com


This video serves as a supplement to a more extensive research report of the same name available here: http://bit.ly/a5IkgH